Cedar Mountain Middle/High School

Set in MORGAN, Minnesota, Cedar Mountain Middle/High School is a low-enrollment secondary school, overseen by CEDAR MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 219 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Cedar Mountain Middle/High School sits 41% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in CEDAR MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT (390 students total), Cedar Mountain Middle/High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Cedar Mountain Middle/High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 8% Native American, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Cedar Mountain Middle/High School records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cedar Mountain Middle/High School is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.8%; Cedar Mountain Middle/High School posts 27.5%, -13.3 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Redwood County shows median household earnings sit near $67,866, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Redwood County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,468 students), of which Cedar Mountain Middle/High School is one.

CEDAR MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.0 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedar Mountain Middle/High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.9%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Cedar Mountain Middle/High School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 273 (now 219).

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